You basically hired labor and really no warranty to speak of, its just really a matter of his integrity.

Typically, only heated square footage is counted so, no, not the garage.

I was just doing some cleaning and found a bid I had gotten a couple years ago from my (former) plumber of mine to do some basic work on my personal residence.

In your case, it's a little sketchy, but SELLING to him at market value basically ensures a full price buyer down the road for those shares.

Hi everyone,After doing lots of looking around in and around my area, it seems like getting 2%/month for rent is quite ambitious.As I understand it, the rule/guideline basically suggests that if you spend $100k on a property, you should be getting $2k/month.

I've never heard any great coming out of that town except for Erin Brockovich (http://www.brockovich.com/)A basic rule of investing is that you need to know what you can sell something for before you can decide what to pay for it.

I don't necessarily have the funds needed to secure even a cheap house but I have a pretty keen intellect, and I know there are options for folks in the same position as me.My real estate agent keeps stating she needs a pre-approval letter, then I have to fill out a bunch of paperwork and basically I'm obligating myself to buy.

Other threads on here and my attorney reccomended your initial letter to be very basic and simple.

Another reason is that Dallas is basically the center of the country and one can be in any other state in 4 hours or less really.

Basically the number of hours it took for a meal, a car, a house has gone done.